Puliamo il Mondo - clearing around Villa Gheradi

It started 10 years ago when the Legambiente in Italy started to organise an annual cleaning event; Puliamo il mondo.

Last year there were more than 700,000 volunteers working in 1700 comunes all over Italy on a mass clean up of the environment.

This year the Comune of Barga took part with the area around Villa Gheradi as the center of operations. Children from the elementary school equipped with gloves, hats and bags cleared the area around the villa of rubbish and waste paper. They were helped in their task by the Alpini, the men of ASBUC (Amministrazione separata beni di uso civico) and even a representative from Scotland in the kilted form of Hugh Macnaughton visiting Barga for the first time with his wife Jacky. More images here